Internet archiving services are powerful open source intelligence (OSINT) tools that can be used like a time machine to look back in time for information that may be crucial to an online investigation. But, just as they can provide a glimpse into the past, these services have also been used...
The ability to perform OSINT efficiently and without detection is not any easy task. Our trained cyber analysts offer a number of virtual courses on OSINT training. At the Academy, our analysts discuss the collection phase of the OSINT cycle, OSINT research, and OSINT investigations.
Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, are supposed to provide consumers with a secure and easy-to-use way to traverse the internet—after all, “private” is right there in the name. But what if the information we provided to those services was not so private?
CAMOSINT operations rely on gaining and maintaining access to various social media platforms and other online spaces. Accordingly, proper MA practices are a key enabling factor for such operations. Even minor technical or behavioral missteps can unravel a CAMOSINT operation, and that’s what appeared to happen to the BS bloggers.
The dark web is in decline. Once the preferred means for anonymizing users’ online activity, the dark web has now been supplanted by encrypted mobile applications and alternate solutions. Similarly, aggressive law enforcement actions have shuttered many of the dark web’s largest forums, making it a much more fleeting and...
The consequence of employing poor managed attribution practices is exposure—exposure of your online activities, your professional affiliation, and, potentially your true identity.
As nationwide stay-at-home orders extend further into the spring, we’ve all had the extent of our creativity and adaptability tested. We’ve attended virtual happy hours (let’s be honest, not as fun as they were in March), whipped our coffee (tastes fine; worth the Instagram post), and baked bread (both sourdough and banana, not bragging). At this point, it’s clear that there are few...
By now, many of us are in the midst of a prolonged period of telework brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, entire sectors of government, including civilian agencies and the defense and national security workforces, have shifted to remote operations. This has created a large group of analysts, operators,...
Transforming open source data into intelligence, or OSINT, has become increasingly complex over the last decade. Although more open sources are available to operators, the dramatic increase of false information and adversarial counter attacks online have made the collection of data an even more tedious process. Known as the OSINT...
So what is a bot? Bots are programs that are designed to engage on social media platforms, often leveraging the platform’s API infrastructure, without requiring human intervention.
